On the 17th of May we had Roy Osherove to come to our office in Lund and give us an advanced TDD course. Roy did an introduction where he talked about the differences between mocks, stubs and fakes. He followed up with some different isolation frameworks, both proxy and profiler based. It was really interesting to see the different syntax the frameworks are using. It was especially fun to do some exercises and being forced to use another framework than you are used to work with.

Roy continued to show different techniques and patterns for refactoring legacy code so that you are able to test it. A lot of legacy code is filled with statics and dependencies – all getting in your way when you just want to fix one little issue. How nice it would be to be able to write a unit test for that piece of code without have to change too much code? Who hasn’t been in a situation like that?

It was a day filled with lots of tips and tricks and other useful information. Add some good discussions as well and we had an awesome day. We at tretton37 are really looking forward to have Roy visit us again soon!

Want to start doing unit testing *for real* but your devs don’t know what they are doing? In this full 9 hour day, your developers will learn how to write readable, trustworthy and maintainable tests, that won’t hurt your project’s schedule, but actually help it.

Don’t miss this opportunity! Purchase your ticket here and further information is available over at Roy’s page.

Unfortunately, this class has been cancelled. We will try to get Roy to visit us another time soon!